Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

20.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

30.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.